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Evergreen Azalea Shiko Lavender
(H4) Choice large lavender pink flowers in May, with tan coloured spotting in the throat, on a neat and compact growing plant. Variable flowers, with sports of white or lavender on the same plant, and occasional petaloid stamens to add greater interest! Height 25-50cm in 10 years.
Ideal for containers and most garden situations, including rock gardens and front of borders. Suitable for bonsai.
Easy...
Evergreen Azalea Nico
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(H5) Medium sized soft cherry red funnel shaped flowers with pink undertones, in May. Light green foliage, maturing to dark green, on a compact plant with low spreading habit. Size 50-75cm in 10 years.
This evergreen azalea is valued for its hardiness, low spreading habit, and unique flower colour. In mid to late May it is completely covered with...
Evergreen Azalea Melina
Exceptional bright pink hose-in-hose (double) flowers up to 55mm across in late May and early June. This is a very hardy variety with a dense, compact, cushion-like habit. Height 30cm and spread 70cm in 10 years.
Ideal for containers and cascading over walls.
Easy to grow.
Group: Evergreen Azalea (German hybrid).
Parentage: 'Rubinstern' x 'Rubinetta' X 'Johanna'.
Hybridization date: pre 2000...
Evergreen Azalea Merlin
Wonderful large pale mauvey purple flowers 65-75mm wide, with deeper speckles in May. This plant has dense twiggy growth and is sometimes nearly deciduous in cold climates in the winter. It is vigorous and has a broad spreading habit. Height 60-80cm in 10 years.
Ideal for smaller gardens.
Easy to grow.
Group:Evergreen Azalea (Glenn Dale hybrid).
Parentage: yedoense var. poukhanense (s) X 'Modele'
Hybridization...
Evergreen Azalea Tuffet
Red to deep pink flowers in June on a very neat and small growing plant with a tuffet like habit. This plant is perfect for small pots and rockeries. Height and spread 25-50cm in 10 years.
Bred by the late Ian Fitzroy, a specialist nurseryman in Sussex, as part of his prostrate Azalea breeding programme. He never Registered this plant, but it is far too good to loose, and it makes a fine tribute to...
Evergreen Azalea Aladdin
This plant has striking pinkish red flowers in May with an upright habit. Height 60-80cm in 10 years.
Ideal for small gardens and mixed borders.
Easy to grow.
Group:Evergreen Azalea (Kurume hybrid).
Parentage: unknown
Hybridization date: pre 1950 (1943).
Bred by: W.C. Hage & Co. Origin: Dutch.
Habit: Upright.
Ideal position: Most garden situations.
Ideal soil: pH 4.5 to 6.
RHS Hardiness...
Evergreen Azalea White Lady
(H5) Lovely large (up to 53mm wide) pure white funnel shaped flowers, with brilliant yellow-green speckling in the throat. A wonderful plant flowering in mid May, it is a compact growing variety, with light glossy foliage. Height 60-80cm in 10 years.
Ideal for containers and small gardens.
Easy to grow.
Group:Evergreen Azalea (kaempferi hybrid).
Parentage: unknown.
Hybridization date: pre 2000...
Evergreen Azalea Snow White
Lovely large white flowers tinged yellowish green in the throat up to 40mm across flowering in May. Height 80cm in 10 years with a spreading habit. A semi evergreen variety which drops its lower leaves in the Autumn/Winter. Also known as 'Schneewittchen'.
Ideal for small gardens and rock gardens.
Easy to grow.
Group:Evergreen Azalea (German hybrid).
Parentage: 'Kermesina' (s) X 'John Cairns'
Hybridization...
Evergreen Azalea Adonis AGM
This plant has lovely large, frilled pure white hose-in-hose flowers in May. Height 60-80cm in 10 years.
Ideal for containers and most garden situations, including rock gardens and front of borders.
Easy to grow.
Group:Evergreen Azalea (Kurume hybrid).
Parentage: 'Truus' X 'Asuma-kaga-mi'? (some authors give 'Salmon Beauty' as a parent).
Hybridization date: pre 2000 (1952).
Bred by: Felix &...
Evergreen Azalea Canzonetta AGM
Semi double reddish pink flowers cover the bush and hide every leaf. Flowering in late May/early June, it has striking mahogany red foliage in winter. The flowers are large up to 5 to 6cm. It forms a neat and small growing plant with a height and spread 30 x 80cm in 10 years.
Ideal for containers. Great for cascading over walls and to extend the flowering season.
Easy to grow.
Group: Evergreen...
Evergreen Azalea Martha Hitchcock
(H6) Distinctive huge deep pink-purple flowers with a prominent paler pink centre and darker spotting on the upper lobes. Really striking 75mm wide flowers during May, sometimes only magenta, and with or without the darker spotting. This azalea has an open spreading habit, and can be a little shy in flowering when young. Given warmer summer conditions, it is an excellent performer and well worth growing....
Evergreen Azalea Purple Splendour
(H5) Beautiful wavy edged hose-in-hose orchid-purple flowers with darker red purple spotting in the throat. Flowers smother the plant in May, which is spreading in habit. Height 75-100cm in 10 years.
Not to be confused with the Hardy Hybrid Rhododendron Purple Splendour.
Ideal for containers and most garden situations, including rock gardens and front of borders.
Easy to grow.
Group: Evergreen...
Evergreen Azalea Hino Crimson AGM
This popular plant has small bright crimson flowers in April and May. With abundant flowering, it has good glossy foliage that turns reddish in winter. Height 75-90cm in 10 years.
Ideal for containers and small gardens, including rock gardens and front of borders.
Easy to grow.
Group:Evergreen Azalea (Kurume hybrid).
Parentage: 'Amoenum' (s) X ' Hinodegiri'
Hybridization date: pre 1950 (1944).
Bred...
Evergreen Azalea Valentine Surprise
Stunning large apricot pink flowers, almost white in the centre, giving a distinct two tone effect. Flowering in May this is a recent introduction which is becoming very popular, especially for that special day in February! Great winter foliage on a compact plant with a spreading habit. Height 60cm in 10 years.
Ideal for containers.
Easy to grow.
Group: Evergreen Azalea (Hyde hybrid).
Parentage:...
Evergreen Azalea Blaauw's Pink AGM
Blaauws Pink has lovely salmon pink hose-in-hose double flowers with paler shading up to 30mm wide. It flowers in early May. Height 50-75cm in 10 years.
Ideal for containers and small gardens.
Easy to grow.
Group:Evergreen Azalea (Kurume hybrid).
Parentage: unknown.
Hybridization date: pre 2000 (1953).
Bred by: J. Blaauw & Co. Origin: Dutch.
Habit: Tall and open.
Ideal position: Most...
Evergreen Azalea Elsie Lee AGM STANDARD
Stunning double lilac-lavender flowers up to 60mm which last well, flowering in late May. A recent introduction and proving very popular, as this is a different colour to most other azaleas. A neat grower with a fairly upright habit, sometimes semi deciduous foliage.
These Standards have a clear stem of approximately 50cm, with a head measuring approximately 15-20cm now. You can expect the head to...
Evergreen Azalea Star Style Lilac
(H4) This is a wonderful New Azalea stenopetalum ‘Linearfolium’ hybrid which produces of the more unusual Azalea flowers, this plant produces bright lilac star shaped flowers. Each flower is made up of long thin petals which look like lilac leaves. When in flower the plant is almost completely covered, leaving very little of the foliage visible. The Star Style azaleas form a dense compact...
Deciduous Azalea atlanticum
Pretty scented white flowers in May with grey green foliage. This is an interesting plant whose flowers open at the same time as the leaves. It is low growing and stoloniferous (meaning it bears stolons which are stems which creep along the surface of the ground, taking root at intervals). It prefers damp conditions and likes a fairly sunny position. From Mid-Eastern U.S.A. Height 120-150cm in 10 years.
Recommended...
Deciduous Azalea Nabucco
(H6) Beautiful dark red flowers with a flare of vivid reddish orange, and contrasting yellow anthers. An excellent and very hardy introduction from Hachmann's Nursery in Northern Germany. Flowering in late May to early June. Height 150-175cm in 10 years.
• Recommended for striking flowers.• Easy to grow.• Group: Deciduous Azalea.• Parentage: ‘Betty Kelly’ X ‘Feuerwerk’.•...
Evergreen Azalea Pink Pancake AGM
This gorgeous plant has large pink wavy edged flowers in June-July. A very spreading prostrate plant matching its pancake name! Ideal for baskets, tubs, and raised beds, where it will cascade over the edge. It has stunning large flowers 45mm x 60mm and a creeping habit. 75-90cm spread in 10 years.
Ideal for containers and small gardens, including rock gardens and raised beds. Great to extend the...
Deciduous Azalea amagianum
(H4) Pretty soft orange-red open bell-shaped flowers with darker spots, which appear with or after the leaves. Flowering June - July. Deciduous rhombic shaped leaves in whorls of 3-4 at the ends of the branchlets. Height 100-125cm in 10 years, eventually reaching up to 5 metres high. Requires a fairly sunny position.
Epithet: From Mount Amagi, Japan
Recommended for late flowering, and interesting...
Deciduous Azalea arborescens AGM
The 'Sweet Azalea' with large white flowers often tinged pink and sometimes with a yellow blotch. A glorious plant, it is cinnamon scented, flowering in July. The leaves smell of newly mown grass when crushed. Good autumn colour. Height 120cm in 10 years. Growing slowly into a large shrub.
Recommended for lovely fragrance and late to extend the flowering season.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position:...
Evergreen Azalea Truus
(H5) Large white star shaped flowers in May contrast with bright apple green foliage on a wide spreading plant. An interesting older Dutch hybrid, bred from R. mucronatum. Height 25-50cm in 10 years.
Bred by Felix and Dijkhuis, and finally registered in 1958.
• Ideal for containers, most garden situations and front of borders.• Easy to grow.• Group: Evergreen Azalea.• Parentage:...
Evergreen Azalea Gumpo White
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Rhododendron (Satsuki Group) 'Gumpo White'
(H5) Clusters of large white flowers with ruffled petals and occasional dark pink flecks in late spring. Featuring small, ovate leaves that start out bright green before deepening to dark green. 75-100cm in 10 years. Requires a moist well drained acid soil in a sheltered position with partial shade. Avoid...
Deciduous Azalea Tower Beauty
(H6) Lovely salmon pink scented flowers with a yellow eye on the upper lobe of the star shapped flower. Late May flowering. An ideal azalea with a softer character, and billowing habit for light woodland locations. Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
An historic plant from Roza Stevenson at the famous Tower Court gardens. It was named for 'Beauty', one of her husband's (Major Harrison's) gundogs.
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Amazing Evergreen Azalea Collection (4 choice plants)
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This is a lovely collection of 4 Evergreen Azaleas that are suitable for containers and most garden situations. We have chosen a great selection of easy to grow plants in beautiful colours.
Blue Moon: Large flowering pale mauve flowers in mid- late June, with good bushy habit. Height 60-90cm in 10 years.
Gaiety: Large flowered pale pink with darker blotch. Early to...
Deciduous Azalea Sahara
Amazing large bright yellow flowers on a late flowering variety, in June. Good autumn leaf colour adds extra interest. Height 120 - 150cm in 10 years. Prefers a fairly sunny position.
Recommended for striking flowers.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous Azalea (Knaphill hybrid).
Parentage: unknown.
Hybridization date: pre 2000 (1959).
Bred by: Waterer (Knaphill). Origin: British.
Habit: upright.
Ideal...
Deciduous Azalea Barbecue
Attractive salmon pink flowers with an orange blotch flowering in May. Semi double, strongly scented flowers 60-80mm wide in trusses of 8. A choice variety launched by Exbury Gardens as one of their Solent Group of Azaleas. Height 140-160cm after 10 years. Requires a fairly sunny position.
Ideal for mixed borders.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous Azalea (Exbury hybrid).
Parentage: unknown.
Hybridization...
Evergreen Azalea Big Point
(H6) Stunning large mauve purple flowers, up to 80mm across, with prominent reddish spotting on the upper lobes, which smother the plant in May. The foliage is dark green and also shows good autumn colours. A compact and very hardy plant with a spreading habit. Height 50-75cm in 10 years.
• Ideal for containers and most garden situations and front of borders.• Easy to grow.• Group:...
Evergreen Azalea Anne Frank
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(H5) Small funnel shaped pink flowers with red marking in April/May. Compact semi-evergreen shrub. Height 50-75cm in 10 years
Deciduous Azalea Water Girl
(H6) Beautifully scented shell pink honeysuckle type flowers. Raised by Ted Millais for late season flowering in July and one of our favourites. This plant also has fantastic blue green foliage during the summer. Height 120-150cm in 10 years.
Recommended for late flower and lovely fragrance.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous Azalea (viscosum hybrid).
Parentage: viscosum hybrid, grown from seed supplied...
Evergreen Azalea Pleasant White
A very pleasant white Azalea! Icey white flowers on a tough neat growing plant. Large flowers up to 65mm appear in mid May. Height 50-75cm in 10 years.
Ideal for containers and small gardens.
Easy to grow.
Group:Evergreen Azalea (American hybrid).
Parentage: 'Kathy Ann' X ''Clara Marie'
Hybridization date: pre 2000 (1966).
Bred by: P.E. Girard. Origin: American.
Habit: Dense mound.
Ideal...
Evergreen Azalea Elsie Lee AGM
Stunning double lilac-lavender flowers up to 60mm which last well, flowering in late May. A recent introduction and proving very popular, as this is a different colour to most other azaleas. A neat grower with a fairly upright habit, sometimes semi deciduous foliage. Height 60-80cm in 10 years.
Ideal for containers and small gardens, makes a real statement!
Easy to grow.
Group:Evergreen Azalea...
Deciduous Azalea Summer Sunshine
(H6) Beautiful creamy yellow flowers with a prominent dark yellow blotch on the upper lobe and interesting crinkly edged flowers. A super fragrant plant with long lasting flowers in June. It will perform best in light shade. Height 120-150cm in 10 years.
Another Denny Pratt hybrid that was collect by Ted Millais from Dunham Massey National Trust garden where it was labelled 'DP122A'.
Recommended...
Evergreen Azalea Madame van Hecke
A popular and reliable stunning profusion of small bright pink flowers. Flowering in early May, this is a very tough and easy growing plant that has an upright habit. Height and spread 75-90cm in 10 years.
Registered as Madame Albert van Hecke.
Ideal for containers and small gardens.
Easy to grow.
Group:Evergreen Azalea (kaempferi hybrid).
Parentage: 'Willy' X unknown.
Hybridization date: pre...
Deciduous Azalea Golden Oriole AGM
(H6) Clusters of golden yellow, funnel-shaped flowers with orange feathering in late April/early May. Bronze tinted young leaves, turning to mid green. Requires moist but well-drained acid soil in full sun or partial shade. Expected height and width 175-200cm in 10 years.
Evergreen Azalea 'Star Style' White
(H4) This is a wonderful New Azalea stenopetalum ‘Linearfolium’ hybrid which produces of the more unusual Azalea flowers, this plant produces bright white star shaped flowers. Each flower is made up of long thin petals which look like white leaves. When in flower the plant is almost completely covered, leaving very little of the foliage visible. The Star Style azaleas form a dense compact...
Deciduous Azalea viscosum rhodanthum
Known as the 'Swamp Honeysuckle'. Beautifully scented pink honeysuckle type flowers, with darker blotches. A superb late summer flowering shrub for July and August. Good autumn foliage. Height 120-150cm in 10 years.
Recommended for wonderful late fragrant flower.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: most garden situations, with some shade.
Habit: upright.
Group: Deciduous Azalea.
Subsection: Pentanthera.
Introduction...
Deciduous Azalea Sommerduft (Summer Scent)
We have discounted these 5l plants due to cosmetic damage caused by a late frost, but will not effect plant growth.
Picture owned by and supplied by Tomma, Schroeder Rhododendron
(H6) Stunning almost pure white trumpet-shaped flowers with a very faint pink tinge to the outer edges opening in July typically after the foliage has appeared. The flowers are strongly scented which comes from azalea viscosum...
Deciduous Azalea viscosum 'Weston's Lemon Drop'
(H6) Peach coloured buds opening to fragrant clear soft yellow trumpet shaped flowers in July, giving much-needed colour late in the season. These flowers usually appear after the bluish green foliage has started to be produced another wonderful treat from this plant.This viscosum hybrid does have a slightly more open habit compared to the straight viscosum. But growing to a similar shape and size...
Deciduous Azalea Knaphill Red
Striking small deep orange red flowers in May-June. A wonderful plant whose foliage also has good autumn colour. Height 150-180cm in 10 years. Requires a fairly sunny position.
Recommended for lovely flowers.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous Azalea (Knaphill hybrid).
Parentage: unknown.
Hybridization date: pre 2000 (before 1958).
Bred by: Waterer (Bagshot). Origin: British.
Habit: upright.
Ideal...
Evergreen Azalea Juliette STANDARD
(H6) Soft red to salmon red flower, 3-4cm across, in late May. Also known as Hachmann’s Juliette in international registers, is a Japanese azalea bred by Holger Hachmann in 1990 as a cross between Squirrel and Chippewa, introduced in 2004. The evergreen leaves are small, narrowly elliptic, dark green, and glossy. These Standards have a clear stem of approximately 15cm, with a nice colourful head...
Deciduous Azalea Summer Beauty
(H6) NEW! Deep salmon red flowers with a slight orange flare on the upper lobe, and very prominent long reddish stamens. The flowers are in small trusses which appear after the foliage from late June, through July and often into August. An interesting and showy cumberlandense hybrid that we have raised here, as one of our Summer series of late flowering azaleas. Height 125-150cm in 10 years.
Bred...
Deciduous Azalea nudipes
Attractive salmony pink flowers with darker markings, usually in pairs and appearing before the rounded leaves in April. Originally from Japan. A rare plant that would appeal to enthusiasts. It does need some shelter, especially when young. Height 120cm in 10 years.
Recommended for early attractive flowers.
Plantsman range.
Ideal position: needs careful site selection with some shelter.
Habit:...
Deciduous Azalea prinophyllum Philip Holmes
(H6) Clove scented rosy pink flowers appearing in clusters with the leaves in May. A choice selection named after the wonderfully knowledgeable senior gardener at Nymans, the National Trust garden in Sussex. A hardy plant originally from the mountains of Eastern USA. Height and spread 120-150cm in 10 years.
Recommended for wonderful fragrant flowers.
Easy to grow.
Ideal position: most garden...
Deciduous Azalea Rosy Fire
Striking strong pink flowers with red and orange overtones that flowers in June. Height 120 - 150cm in 10 years. It prefers a fairly sunny position.
Recommended for beautiful and striking flowers.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous Azalea (Pratt hybrid).
Parentage: unknown
Hybridization date: unknown.
Bred by: D. Pratt. Origin: British.
Habit: upright.
Ideal position: Most garden situations with...
Deciduous Azalea Drury Lane
A striking large flowered apricot azalea from Exbury Gardens. Flowering in May - June, semi double flowers up to 85mm across appear 13 per truss. A distinctive plant that is proving very popular. Height 150-180cm in 10 years. Requires a fairly sunny position.
One of the later introductions from Exbury, and part of their 'Solent' range of Deciduous Azaleas.
Ideal for mixed borders.
Easy to grow.
Group:Deciduous...
Deciduous Azalea Magnificum
Gorgeous fragrant orange in bud, opening to creamy white flowers, flushed pink with a prominent orange flare flowering in May - June. A choice Azalea occidentale hybrid, best in a fairly sunny position. Height 125-150 cm in 10 years.
Recommended for lovely fragrant flowers.
Easy to grow.
Group: Ghent.
Parentage: unknown.
Hybridization date: pre 1900 (1826).
Bred by: C Loddiges & Sons...
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Millais Nurseries grow one of the widest ranges of Rhododendrons and Azaleas in the world, and have an unparalleled experience of the genus, and have achieved 5 consecutive RHS Gold medals at Chelsea. We propagate around 35,000 Rhododendrons each year, by cuttings, grafts, seed and micropropagation. These are supplied to keen gardeners, large estates,...